Rape
has always been an issue everyone takes seriously. Feminist liberals
have long used visceral imagery of rape (and domestic violence) as power
tools to enact unconstitutional welfare, divorce, property confiscation,
and now gun control laws. This Edwardian Witch hunt runs much of our
family and criminal law systems.

Conservatives
thought it silly when liberals said “the personal is the political”.
We missed the unstated second half of this sucker punch. Liberals followed
through by transforming the political into the personal and enacting
it in federal law.

Existing
rape and domestic violence policies harm thousands of individuals, behind
closed doors, one at a time, and nobody knows. Most of us do notice
that feminist claims are ridiculous, but pay no attention until they
end up behind closed doors.

Feminists
crank out volumes of shoddy
unscientific surveys overwhelming the occasional but more accurate
reporting by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Here is a fine example.
One in five campus women are not raped in college, but a lot of them
later
regret hooking up with some guy after a party. This is not news
to anyone who went to college.

Rape
is in fact a shrinking problem. Scurrilous reports of rape are the real
epidemic. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 2003
and 2012, rape victimization actually declined by about 82% (Table
4). Feminist-aligned researchers in the CDC highlighted a 49% increase
in “reported” rapes in 2011-2012, but actual victimization
rates did not change (Table
9).

Feminists
hollering “fire” in every theater has de-legitimized rape
to the point where courts, police, prosecutors, and colleges expect
many allegations to be worthless. A confused and overwhelmed system
misses some good cases while prosecuting poor innocent men defended
by pro-bono attorneys. The lucky innocents later see their convictions
reversed by the Innocence
Project after spending decades in prison.

College
campuses are ground zero for today’s iatrogenic rape-power agenda.
The feminist agenda revolves around synthetic “victim power”.
In the Weekly Standard, Harvey
Mansfield pointed out that feminists promoted the “hook-up
culture” and now want to control campuses by re-labelling it a
“rape culture”. Wendy McElroy conservatively calls the “rape
culture” a
big lie. The number of reported rapes at Harvard has doubled,
yet I cannot find one rape case involving a Harvard student that has
ever been prosecuted.

The
Duke Lacrosse rape case was the first national circus that educated
the nation about false campus rape allegations. Zealous prosecutor Mike
Nifong, Duke University, and 88
Duke professors “convicted” the Lacrosse players without
so much as a hearing.

The
lacrosse players were declared innocent after extensive investigation
by the North Carolina Bar Association. The City of Durham and Duke University
paid large sums to the Duke Lacrosse students and their parents. Prosecutor
Mike Nifong was disbarred and sued. Stripper Crystal Mangum walked away
unscathed but was later convicted of child abuse and for murdering
her boyfriend.

A
redux of the Duke case at Hofstra
University unraveled in just 72 hours due to good police work. Our
hat is off to our men in blue.

Feminists
learned the hard way that the justice system does not cater to nepotic
ideology. So they invented their own campus Star Chamber arrangement
to replace the justice system. The Obama administration and Department
of Education forced this on publicly-funded colleges by applying implausible
administrative interpretations of Title IX. Protections preventing
discrimination against women now force colleges to openly harass and
discriminate againts many men.

Feminists
are moving past administrative policy -- pulling the stops out to establish
keystone legislation in California -- the state where feminists always
launch their major initiatives. The proposed “yes
means yes” sex assault law would require college men to get
verbal permission each time they sleep with a woman. This establishes
a discriminatory presumption of guilt nearly
impossible to disprove in a court of law.

Colleges
are caught in the crosshairs of calumny. “Why could we not expel
a student based on an allegation?”, says feminist Amanda Childress,
head of Dartmouth College’s Center for Community Action and Prevention.
With this contradistinguishing mantra in mind, feminists are suing
a few colleges in federal court for not adequately protecting women.

The
majority of legal action on college Amphitheaters is by victims falsely
accused of sexual violence. Men thrown out of college without due process
such as Dez
Wells, Drew
Sterret, and at least 28
other men are suing colleges for sometimes-sizeable damages.

This
bill is a declaration
of war on due process facing
stiff criticism. College “courts” are not proper venue
for hearing of felony offenses such as rape, murder, terrorism, and
other serious crimes. Colleges should immediately refer all felony cases
to police and prosecutors and take actions recommended by police and
prosecutors.

Gifford’s
policy would not have prevented Jared Loughner from shooting her. He
had only a minor drug charge and had been suspended from college for
“disruptive behavior” on his record. Gifford’s policy
would not help in most other cases. Rapists rarely use guns. Most school
shootings are done by crazy kids using guns owned by their parents.
Many shootings are done by hardened criminals using off-record, illegally-obtained
guns. Most importantly: Tea Partiers are not crazy.

Gifford’s
model is a recipe for the neutered feminist society depicted in the
1993 film “Demolition
Man”. It will seize guns from anybody the government does
not like on the notion that it might prevent a shooting, leaving guns
only in the hands of hardened criminals.

So
what happened to legitimate rape? Much of the real problems are flatly
ignored by feminists and government agencies.

Feminist
liberals and the Obama administration paid no attention to the crisis
of child sexual abuse committed by illegal immigrants. North
Carolina had at least 112 new cases filed in June. States are overwhelmed
by an expensive tidal wave of rape and other crimes inflicted on them
by the Obama administration.

Todd
Akin’s position points to policy problems long overdue for correction.
Feminist incendiaries should be removed from perches of power in education
and government. Unscientific administrative regulations must be discarded
from public policy. The “Violence
Against Women Act”, on which expansive new feminist rape and
violence initiatives are based, must be replaced with an effective gender-neutral
“Family Violence Act”. Justice and freedom cannot exist
when good men are ideologically served up on the platter of radical
feminism.

Existing
rape and domestic violence policies harm thousands of individuals, behind
closed doors, one at a time, and nobody knows. Most of us do notice that
feminist claims are ridiculous, but pay no attention until they end up
behind closed doors.